Key HIV Misconceptions among Inhabitants of a Rural Community in Enugu State, Nigeria | Chapter 13 | Current Progress in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 3

 This branch assess HIV impressions among rural tenants in Enugu state, southeast Nigeria. By November 2021, 36.3 million folk had died of HIV infection everywhere, with 37.7 heap people still infected accompanying the virus as at 2020. About 25.4 heap of those infected are about WHO African Region. Misconceptions about HIV/AIDS exist mostly in underdeveloped countries.The study was of descriptive, cross localized design, using pre-tested questioner administered inquiry. The questionnaire was completed all the while a medical be superior to activity in January 2015, systematized by indigenes of Udi Local Government Area who were health laborers in the State University Teaching Hospital, Enugu.Correct reactions to the misconceptions investigated were; HIV contamination found only with sinners (29.7%), HIV transmitted by eating from the unchanging plate with an contaminated person (24.7%),  HIV communicated through handshake (29.7%), HIV can be communicated by touching the excretion or faeces of an infected person (24.0%), HIV maybe transmitted by embracing or touching an infected man (28.0%), HIV can be healed (19.9%), Praying daily can hinder HIV infection (20.3%), and Worshipping our ancestors can avert HIV infection (27.0%). It is very troublesome that only 19.9% of respondents in this study had this information. Many pregnant daughters (58.6%) in Gwagwalada Area Council of Abuja, Nigeria had the correct knowledge in the past that now, there is no cure for HIV/AIDS.People the one live in country areas are more prone to have dishonest beliefs about HIV. It is considered that pertinent governments in developing countries with its own government create pushs targeted at dispelling HIV/AIDS parables, particularly in country areas.

Author(s) Details:

Edmund O. Ndibuagu,

Department of Community Medicine and Primary Health Care, Enugu State University College of Medicine, Parklane, Enugu, Nigeria, Department of Community Medicine, Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Parklane, Enugu, Nigeria and Esucom Health Care Delivery Research Initiative, Enugu State University College of Medicine, Enugu, Nigeria.

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